The scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru have
designed a pen shaped, needleless drug delivery device, that uses
supersonic shock waves for the painless delivery of medicines into the
body.
This new method has been developed based on the collaborative work between the Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock waves, Department of Aerospace Engineering, and the Microbiology and Cell Biology Department of the Indian Institute of Science. Using the new technique, typhoid vaccines have been successfully delivered into mice in the laboratory. The depth of penetration of drug below the skin is very small the animals during vaccine delivery do not experience a great deal of pain. The animal trails have shown that by using this method a lesser quantity of vaccines is sufficient to provide resistance to animals against infection when compared to conventional methods.
The new system has multiple advantages such as being painless, easily portable, completely disposable, safe and very economical.
This information was given by the MOS, HRD, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
This new method has been developed based on the collaborative work between the Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock waves, Department of Aerospace Engineering, and the Microbiology and Cell Biology Department of the Indian Institute of Science. Using the new technique, typhoid vaccines have been successfully delivered into mice in the laboratory. The depth of penetration of drug below the skin is very small the animals during vaccine delivery do not experience a great deal of pain. The animal trails have shown that by using this method a lesser quantity of vaccines is sufficient to provide resistance to animals against infection when compared to conventional methods.
The new system has multiple advantages such as being painless, easily portable, completely disposable, safe and very economical.
This information was given by the MOS, HRD, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
